Publications

We are pleased to announce the publication of ED-312|Guidance on Determining Failure Modes in Lithium-Ion Cells for eVTOL Applications. This document contains guidance on the definition and detection of lithium-ion cell failures, cell failure causes and materials level failure modes. It also informs on interdependencies between failure causes that may be considered when definin ...

We are pleased to announce the publication of ED-303|User Guide for Lightning Protection of Fuel Tank Structures and Systems. This document is intended to be a user’s manual to AC 25.954 1 on acceptable means of compliance for applicants with regards to 14 CFR 25.954 at Amendment 25 146 and to encourage a consistent approach to be applied across industry. This document is also ...

We are pleased to announce the publication of ED-308|Guidance on VTOL Charging Infrastructure. This document contains minimum requirements for VTOL Charging Infrastructure. This technical standard applies to electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) designated to conductively charge vertical take-off and landing aircrafts (VTOL) on vertiports. This technical standard is a collec ...

We are pleased to announce the publication of ED-114B change1|MOPS Global Navigation Satellite GBAS Ground Equipment to support Precision Approach and Landing. This is a change to ED-114B, MOPS for Global Navigation Satellite Ground Based Augmentation System Ground Equipment to support Precision Approach and Landing. Its purposes are: • To resolve findings that were identifi ...

We are pleased to announce the publication of ED-300|Guidance on Conducting an Aircraft Functional Hazard Assessment and Preliminary Aircraft Safety Assessment for a VTOL Using a Generic Example. A VTOL example is needed to show how aircraft-level Failure Conditions and their associated requirements can be flown down to system level, specifically for the highly-integrated funct ...

ED-300 ‘Guidance on Conducting an Aircraft Functional Hazard Assessment (AFHA) and Preliminary Aircraft Safety Assessment (PASA) for a VTOL Using a Generic Example’, which was developed by WG-112 on VTOL, was published on 7 November 2022.

We are pleased to announce the publication of ED-306|Design Considerations for VTOL Aircraft Protection From Uncontained High-Energy Fragments and Sustained Imbalance. The standard will cover: - Review the design consideration for high energy rotating devices in VTOL: Generators, E-Motors, Gear box etc. - Classification of debris & Assessment of fragment spread angle: inten ...

We are pleased to announce the publication of ED-304|Technical Standard for Passenger and Crew Seats in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Aircraft. Crash-worthy stroking seats have seen adoption in military and emergency services rotorcraft. VTOL for Urban Air Mobility is an emerging technology sector, there are currently in the order 130 new platforms being developed globally, of wh ...

We are pleased to announce the publication of ER-023|Development Assurance Principles for Aerospace Vehicles and Systems. This document was developed jointly by EUROCAE Working Group 63 “Complex Aircraft Systems” and SAE S-18 “Aircraft and Sys Dev and Safety Assessment Committee”. This document provides a high-level set of principles for the development assurance of aerospace ...

We are pleased to announce the publication of ED-243C Ch.1|MOPS for Avionics Supporting Next Generation Satellite Systems (NGSS). Several issues have been identified that will require Change 1 documentation to the existing Appendix F Iridium Certus MOPS: 1. Changes to Section F.2.3.5 for Lightning Induced Transient Testing required in DO-160 – missing note and table F-32 updat ...